Glacial-interglacial dynamics of the eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue-Intertropical Convergence Zone system reconstructed from oxygen isotope records

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Koutavas, Athanasios ^a   Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold tongue; ITCZ; Oxygen isotopes; Tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

COLD FRONT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CORE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBIGERINOIDES SACCULIFER;

EID: 1642268360     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000894     Document Type: Article

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